Disagreements slow Pentagon's plan to allow transgender service members Dan Lamothe, May 15
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/05/15/disagreements-slow-pentagons-plan-to-allow-transgender-service-members/Four months after a deadline set Carter set for a working group to finish evaluating the change, transgender service members are still waiting. Officials say disagreements remain in the Defense Department about how to move forward, suggesting that the Pentagon isn't close to wrapping up the review, let alone instituting any changes.
Peter Levine, who recently took over as the Pentagon's acting personnel chief, said that Carter remains committed to pursuing the change, but added that it will likely take "months, but not large numbers of months" more to finalize details.
"If there was consensus on it, yeah, we would have done it," Levine said. "But obviously there are different views from different officials in the services."
